Title: Community News
Date: 2020-10-03 00:00
Modified: 2020-10-03 00:00
Category: blog
Tags: news
Slug: community-news-2020-10-03
Authors: vaeringjar
Description: News from the community.
Summary: News from the community.


### News

In July I [announced](https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/GoZaV4JbC9)
plans to retire gnusocial.no on 2020-08-31. After three years of
running the site, I decided the time and money necessary to support
the dwindling number of users no longer made sense. It took me away
from the Peers Community and drained me of my energy. I spent more
time dealing with troublemakers than supporting a platform I could use
to socialize with folks.  

I will finally remove it from the Peers projects list. The "IRL"
stresses related to the raging fires and covid19 have delayed much of
my activities the last several weeks...  


### New projects

Since fun is fun, last years I started working on an emacs
orgmode-based static-site-generator and a table-top RPG game. And just
last week I started making a map renderer that uses pygame. I plan to
eventually build a website using these tools so folks can play ttrpg
games online (perhaps using jitsi or mumble).  

Earlier this year I also started writing an enterprise-data-related
web app to replace features I use in one of my day jobs. Academically,
I've also studied self-sovereign identity for the past several
years. I worked on a project called securemailbox and also created
some prototypes, one which I named peers-identity. Eventually I plan
on integrating all of these so folks can use GPG to login without the
use of passwords.  

None of these are official Peers projects yet. I'd really like to
combine peers-bounty-hunts into the main website and I also have
considered migrating the website from pelican to the orgmode SSG. We
sill need to discuss it.  
